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Sunday, 14 February 2016

Watson: “We can reveal some
details relating to this intelligence, and it’s clear that Alexander
Litvinenko’s investigations were proving very dangerous indeed.”

[Ministry
of Interior Police video, Spain]

“In November 2006 when he was
dying in London, he was supposed to be in Spain, helping the Spanish
authorities investigate this Russian mafia boss, Tariel Oniani. His work with
Spanish intelligence, which is confirmed by today’s report, was clearly very
dangerous, and we understand this was part of the secret intelligence that
underpins the report’s conclusions. A very well-placed source has told
Newsnight that he had video-taped evidence against Oniani that Spanish prosecutors
wanted to use.”

Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda
Gonzales: “Why did we need Litvinenko? We needed him because he knew them,
because he had fought against them, because he had investigated them. In
particular, he had investigated Tariel Oniani in Russia.”

Watson: “Newsnight obtained
this confidential document in Spain. It includes a transcript of a police
interview with former Russian politician and mafia suspect himself, Mikhail Monastirski.
This document reveals how the Spanish, with Litvinenko’s help, were closing in
on Russian organised crime, and how they were chasing alleged links to the
mafia, right up to President Putin’s door. It reads like a spy drama, but these
are the real words.”

[Newsnight
dramatisation] Mikhail Monastirski: “The
ones who want to kill me, might just be the ones from St Petersburg. There’s
one called Kamara and he’d be quite happy if I wasn’t here. He’s hated me for a
long time.”

Spanish investigator: “Who
else? You said, ‘three’.”

Monastirski: “Visidi Bolansky.
He’s a finisher.”

Investigator: “A killer?”

Monastirski: “He has a team of
killers. The rest are just criminals. Right now Russia is run by people from
the KGB of St Petersburg.”

Investigator: “So, you don’t
say anything about Putin, out of caution?”

Watson: “The man they
interviewed died in a mysterious car crash in France shortly after he spoke to
Spanish police. But other more personal attacks against Putin made [Litvinenko] an immediate target for assassination I
understand. I’ve spoken to a source with close knowledge of inside thinking at
MI6, and he tells me that Litvinenko was murdered on the orders of the Russian
state - and I’m told that Putin must have known - because he crossed two
distinct red lines…”

Watson: “This was the first.
He’d alleged that Putin had authorised a secret operation to blow up apartment
buildings in Moscow so he could blame Chechen terrorists and justify a new war.
Russia has always denied this, but Putin was incensed.

As
explained above, Watson’s insinuation that Putin was behind these terrorist
atrocities is hokum, as is the suggestion that Litvinenko’s allegation “incensed”
him.

And this was the second:
bizarre film of the president kissing a boy publicly led Litvinenko to make
wild allegations that he was a paedophile.

'Wild allegations' indeed. One could go further and state that this inference is worthy only of the most abject and desperate-for-circulation
gutter-press tabloid.

“After the report’s publication
there were angry denials by the Russian ambassador to London”[Footage outside Foreign Office building]

Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko: “The
length of time that it took to close this case in this way makes us to believe
it was a whitewash of the British special services incompetence.”

PM David Cameron: “What
happened was absolutely appalling, and this report confirms what we’ve always
believed, and what the last Labour government believed at the time of this
dreadful murder, which is; it was state-sponsored action. And that’s why the
last government took the action of expelling Russian diplomats, of issuing
arrest warrants, of refusing to cooperate with Russian intelligence agencies,
and those measures continue. What we’ve added today rightly is further
asset-freezes, writing again to the prosecuting authorities to see what more
can be done.”

"Hook, line and sinker", to borrow George Galloway's phraseology (see below).

Watson: “Today’s report does
not confirm the motive for murder. That’s probably covered by secret intelligence,
and we’ve had to rely on our own sources for that. In Russia, the fact that one
of the killers [sic] has been given a presidential medal tells
you all you need to know; that a serving head of state has just been implicated
in conspiracy to murder.”

In
Britain, the fact that the whole ridiculous ‘slapstick comedy’ scenario involving
Lugovoy and Kovtun wasn’t laughed out of court years ago is a cause for major
embarrassment.

About Me

Hi, I'm James Bruce, a 41 year old chap from Bristol in England. I set off on 22 March 2013 from Blantyre, Scotland, with the aim of reaching Blantyre, Malawi, with God's help. I am raising money for Mary's Meals, the non-denominational charity that feeds children worldwide and helps them gain an education. I paid for all my expenses myself, thanks to a legacy from my late grandfather. If you would like to donate please call call 0800 698 1212 or visit www.marysmeals.org.uk.
I hope you will accompany me on this journey from wherever you are! God bless, James